ita - Brenda amused me. (In a fictional character I can overlook little flaws like being a serial killer that would bug me in real life.) Sharon doewn't

I got my first pay from Uber. This is not so much keeping the wolf from the door as it is keeping a 300 foot buffer zone between me and the wolf.

If only wolf restraining orders actually worked.

Salt Lake City has declined to change their ground transportation rules to make Uber and Lyft happy.

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Uber keeps arguing "We're not a taxi company, we're an app company the helps people co-ordinate rides with each other. You've got to get past your dated, 20th-century mindset." Supports argue that it's only the kickbacks from the taxi companies that is keeping SLC from embracing this modern way of doing business.

ita, I am watching Scorpion. I recognize that it's not a great show, but I'm enjoying it anyway so I just don't look too close. I still watch CSI, but missed a few eps due to conflicts and was surprised to find I didn't care that much. Still watching Criminal Minds due to my extreme love of Reid, Morgan, and Garcia. JLH doesn't suck quite as bad as expected, though I still dislike her intensely. But my love of R, M, & G is sufficient to keep me around.

Mac is sending me hate texts.

From school? Or is he home today? Damn, kiddo.

He's home. The nanny is there now.

This kid wears me out.

These "21st century" companies make their money by providing less liability protetction and by creaming off the best rides, while not offering service in less profitable areas. While an argument can be made that in some cities there is an abusurd medallion system in place, regulations that specify minimum fairs in return for obligations to serve areas that would otherwise be unserved or underserved, and obligations to maintain reasonalbe liability protection are more than unfair. If a company's business model is "we can compete because we don't have to obey the rules" my response to them is a string of expletives. If you've found a genuine technological advantage rather than a loophole in the law which does not work in every location, then work under the same rules as your competition. There are apps for informal ride sharing, that don't involve people in essence operating as taxi services that don't come under these rules. Basically they are a kind of car pooling. Lyft and Uber and so on is not car pooling. They are ways for people to make part of a living by providing taxi service. As such they need to operate under the same rules as taxi services.

Guess he wants to lose the text feature too. I did that to son Brendon once. He was not pleased.